The Dred Scott decision gave slavery the protection of the U.S. Thus, the Court found that popular sovereignty and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 were unconstitutional. Further, the Court said Congress could not prohibit slavery in federal territories. The Court rejected Scott’s claim, ruling that no African American––even if free––could ever be a U.S. Supreme Court issued the Dred Scott decision, settling a lawsuit in which an African American slave named Dred Scott claimed he should be a free man because he had lived with his master in slave states and in free states. Violence between the two sides created warlike conditions. SenateĪnd President Franklin Pierce supported the proslavery Kansans. House of Representatives supported the abolitionist Kansans the U.S. Proslavery Kansans reacted by raising their own army. Abolitionists then elected a rival Kansas government with an antislavery constitution, established a different capital city, and raised an army. Proslavery voters elected a legislature ready to make Kansas a slave state. Some of these Missourians settled in Kansas, but many more stayed there only long enough to vote for slavery and then returned to Missouri. Antislavery abolitionists came from eastern states proslavery settlers came mainly from neighboring Missouri. Pro- and antislavery groups hurried into Kansas in attempts to create voting majorities there. This made a proslavery doctrine, popular sovereignty (rule by the people), the law of the United States. This time, the territories were Kansas and Nebraska, and Congress approved the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and gave the settlers in all new territories the right to decide for themselves whether theirs would be a free or a slave state. In 1854, Congress again took up the issue of slavery in new U.S. When trying to remember the values and beliefs of the important leaders of the Civil War era, you should think about which side each was on and the basic beliefs that separated the two sides. Also, differences in how each section of the nation had developed created opposing viewpoints about economic policies such as tariffs. Most southern leaders supported the continuation of slavery. Southern leaders were more likely to believe in states’ rights and often thought of themselves as citizens of their state first and their country second.
Northern leaders were more likely to believe in the supremacy of the national government and to be against the expansion of slavery. The Civil War started because Northerners and Southerners had serious differences of opinion about states’ rights, slavery, and economics.
history, so your knowledge of it is an essential part of your understanding of American history. The Civil War was one of the defining events in U.S. This standard will measure your understanding of the cause of the Civil War, its course from start to finish, and its consequences.
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